Seymour Barab(1921-2014)
- Music Department
Composer, songwriter, and cellist in symphony orchestras throughout the
USA, also with the New York Pro Musica Antiqua (viola da gamba). He
joined ASCAP in 1955, and his compositions include the 1-act opera
"Chanticleer"; also the "Woodwind Quintet and Sextet with Piano" and
"Chamber Music"; also, musical settings to poems of Byron, Browning,
Dowson, Teasdale and Blake. His song compositions include "Songs of
Perfect Propriety" (Dorothy Parker poems), and "A Child's Garden of
Verses" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
